Software Engineer 3, Commerce

Job Description

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Condé Nast's commerce team builds the technology behind product discovery, personalized shopping, and checkout experiences across our portfolio of brands. We're looking for a Software Engineer III to help design and scale backend systems that power commerce initiatives, including styling and product recommendations, catalog, inventory, and order infrastructure, built to serve multiple brands, not just one. You'll work closely with product managers and engineers across the org to build systems that are fast, reliable, and designed for reuse and scale across Condé Nast's diverse editorial and commerce properties.

Key Qualifications

• 6+ years building production backend systems, ideally with some exposure to e-commerce, retail, or content-commerce platforms

• Deep proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript/JavaScript, with a track record of designing services that hold up under real user traffic, including seasonal or campaign-driven spikes

• Experience building and evolving REST and GraphQL APIs that serve both internal teams (editorial, styling, merchandising) and external partners (retail affiliates, payment providers, product data feeds)

• Comfort designing event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS, EventBridge) for things like inventory sync, price updates, order status, and affiliate commerce events

• Strong database design instincts across relational and NoSQL systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)

• Experience designing systems with multi-tenancy or configurability in mind: building once and adapting across different use cases, teams, or brands, rather than one-off solutions

• Basic fluency in React, enough to collaborate closely with frontend engineers building shoppable articles, styling widgets, and product carousels

• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design, applied pragmatically rather than academically

• Comfortable owning the full development lifecycle, from version control and code review to automated testing and CI/CD deployment. 

• A collaborative streak: you'll be pairing with product, editorial, and design stakeholders across multiple brands, each with its own voice and priorities

• AI-native mindset. Use AI tools as part of your everyday workflow, and look for opportunities to apply AI to solve real engineering and product problems, not just to write code faster. 

Description

As a backend engineer on Condé Nast's commerce team, you'll design and build services spanning multiple commerce initiatives, including product catalog and inventory systems, retail partner integrations, styling and recommendation features, and checkout infrastructure, with an eye toward reusability across our brands. You'll work closely with product managers to translate business goals into technical designs, and with frontend and other backend engineers to ship features end to end. You'll make architectural calls that balance speed of iteration with the reliability commerce demands, while thinking ahead about how a given system might need to flex for a different brand's catalog structure, traffic pattern, or editorial workflow. You'll participate in code reviews and design discussions, and mentor other engineers to help raise the technical bar across the team.

Day to day, the specific project might shift: optimizing a product-matching query for styling recommendations one quarter, hardening a retail partner integration the next. But the core of the work stays the same: partnering closely with product and engineering to build commerce systems that are reliable, well-designed, and scalable across Condé Nast's portfolio of brands.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 

6+ years of professional backend software development experience required.

The expected base salary range for this position is from $175,000-195,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including but not limited to relevant skills, training, experience, and education.

What happens next?

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.